brusquerie

English

Alternative forms

• brusquery

Etymology

From French brusquerie.

Noun

brusquerie (countable and uncountable, plural brusqueries)

1. Brusqueness; abruptness, bluntness.
   • 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, I.2:

     Dorothea looked straight before her, and spoke with cold brusquerie, very much with the air of a handsome boy, in amusing contrast with the solicitous amiability of her admirer.

French

Noun

brusquerie m (plural brusqueries)

1. brusqueness

Further reading

• “brusquerie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.